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The Home and Colonial Library was a series of works published in London from 1843 to 1849, comprising 49 titles, by John Murray III. He founded it, as a series of cheap reprints, original works and translations, slanted towards travel literature in the broad sense, in the year of death of his father, John Murray II.[1][2]

Listing

This listing of 45 titles of the Library, two of those coming in 2 vols., was published in 1876.[3]

Author Title
Charles Acland Manners and Customs in India[4]
Joseph Abbott Missionary Life in Canada
John Barrow Life of Sir Francis Drake
George Borrow The Bible in Spain[5]
George Borrow Gypsies in Spain
Thomas Campbell The British Poets
Lord Carnarvon Portugal and Gallicia
Charles Darwin Voyage of a Naturalist
John Drinkwater Siege of Gibraltar
W. H. Edwards The River Amazon
Richard Ford Gatherings from Spain
Lord Ellesmere The Sieges of Vienna
George Robert Gleig Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan
George Robert Gleig Campaigns at Washington
George Robert Gleig The Battle of Waterloo
George Robert Gleig Life of Lord Clive
George Robert Gleig Life of Munro
Alexander Duff Gordon Sketches of German Life
Lady Duff Gordon The Amber Witch
Lady Duff Gordon The French in Algiers
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest History of the Fall of the Jesuits
J. Drummond Hay Morocco and the Moors
H. W. Haygarth Bush Life in Australia
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet Stokers and Pokers
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet Pampas Journeys
Reginald Heber Journal in India
Irby and James Mangles Travels in the Holy Land
Matthew Gregory Lewis Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies
Lord Mahon Life of Condé
Lord Mahon Historical Essays
Julia Charlotte Maitland Letters from Madras
John Malcolm Sketches of Persia
Herman Melville Typee and Omoo
Louisa Anne Meredith Notes and Sketches of New South Wales
Edward Augustus Milman The Wayside Cross; or, the Raid of Gomez, a tale of the Carlist War
Elizabeth Rigby,[6] Livonian Tales
Ripa The Court of China
G. F. Ruxton Adventures in Mexico
Bayle St John The Libyan Desert
Charles George William St John Highland Sports
Southey Cromwell and Bunyan
Steffens Autobiography
"A Lady" Letters from the Baltic
"A Lady" Letters from Madras
"A Lady" Sierra Leone

Notes

  1. ^ Innes M. Keighren; Charles W. J. Withers; Bill Bell (6 May 2015). Travels Into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859. University of Chicago Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-226-42953-3.
  2. ^ Robert L. Gale (1995). A Herman Melville Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-313-29011-4.
  3. ^ s:Page:Memoir and correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876).djvu/398
  4. ^ "A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India : Charles Acland : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  5. ^ H. Manners Sutton (1851). The Lexington Papers. John Murray. pp. 375–6.
  6. ^ Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake; Julie Sheldon (2009). The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Liverpool University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-84631-194-9.